| May 27, 2009 03:11 GMT-6 |
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Everything contains contradictory elements and globalization is no exception. It brings positive influence on native culture and economy, but it also has had its dark side at the same time. The best way is to fully make use of its advantages and to minimize its negative effects.
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| Oct 18, 2009 23:35 GMT-6 |
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good job that were gud anwers a few of them
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| Oct 19, 2009 23:14 GMT-6 |
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In regard to preserve indigenous culture, globalization does not impose any positive influence. We must realize that the development of the society must be at the cost of some things. Be it good or bad, it was inevitable.
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| Nov 6, 2009 02:53 GMT-6 |
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People around the globe are more connected to each other than ever before. Information and money flow more quickly than ever. Goods and services produced in one part of the world are increasingly available in all parts of the world. International travel is more frequent. International communication is commonplace. This phenomenon has been titled "globalization."
Developed nations have outsourced manufacturing and white collar jobs. That means less jobs for their people. This has happened because manufacturing work is outsourced to developing nations like China where the cost of manufacturing goods and wages are lower. Programmers, editors, scientists and accountants have lost their jobs due to outsourcing to cheaper locations like India.
Globalization has led to exploitation of labor. Prisoners and child workers are used to work in inhumane conditions. Safety standards are ignored to produce cheap goods.
Job insecurity. Earlier people had stable, permanent jobs. Now people live in constant dread of losing their jobs to competition. Increased job competition has led to reduction in wages and consequently lower standards of living.
Terrorists have access to sophisticated weapons enhancing their ability to inflict damage. Terrorists use the Internet for communicating among themselves.
Companies have set up industries causing pollution in countries with poor regulation of pollution.
Fast food chains like McDonalds and KFC are spreading in the developing world. People are consuming more junk food from these joints which has an adverse impact on their health.
The benefits of globalization is not universal. The rich are getting richer and the poor are becoming poorer.
Bad apects of foreign cultures are affecting the local cultures through TV and the Internet.
Enemy nations can spread propaganda through the Internet.
Deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS are being spread by travellers to the remotest corners of the globe.
Local industries are being taken over by foreign multinationals.
The increase in prices has reduced the governments ability to sustain social welfare schemes in developed countries.
There is increase in human trafficking.
Multinatonal Companies and corporations which were previously restricted to commercial activities are increasingly influencing political decisions.
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| Nov 6, 2009 02:57 GMT-6 |
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Policy-makers are finally grappling with the growing global food and water crises that are upon us. While they grope for answers, Vandana Shiva reminds them that it was their wild economic schemes that created these crises in the first place. The globalized economic structure is simply incompatible with the basic physics of the planet and the principles of democratic governance, she says. And until we align the economic system with those of the ecological system, the problems will only get worse. While many of Shiva's books address some aspect of this fundamental problem, one title captures it most succinctly, Earth Democracy, Justice, Sustainability and Peace. Shiva is a physicist, author, director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology and Ecology and the founder of Navdanya. AlterNet: Much of your writing and speaking has focused on our economic structure's incompatibility with the ecological functioning of the earth. Talk about that incompatibility.
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| Nov 6, 2009 02:59 GMT-6 |
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Negative Aspects of Globalization
Outsourcing, while it provides jobs to a population in one country, takes away those jobs from another country, leaving many without opportunities.
Although different cultures from around the world are able to interact, they begin to meld, and the contours and individuality of each begin to fade.
There may be a greater chance of disease spreading worldwide, as well as invasive species that could prove devastating in non-native ecosystems.
There is little international regulation, an unfortunate fact that could have dire consequences for the safety of people and the environment.
Large Western-driven organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank make it easy for a developing country to obtain a loan. However, a Western-focus is often applied to a non-Western situation, resulting in failed progress.
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